Example sentences of "depend on the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Some people depend on the land for their income .
2 He does not hazard any opinions on how costs depend on the complexity of the service !
3 The effects of the processes of subaerial and marine denudation described in earlier chapters depend on the influence of base level , which is usually sea level .
4 If the council is amending an adopted plan it will , as with structure plans , depend on the relevance of either plan to the current facts in the locality .
5 ( Often refers to persons in the age group between puberty and young adulthood , that is about 14–17 years or some similar period in the teens ; the limits of which depend on the timing of puberty and adulthood in a particular population ) .
6 Each of these may represent an opportunity or an obstacle to a group , and how well the group comes to terms with these constraints will , in turn , depend on the level of motivation possessed by the members , and on the degree to which they are able to work together .
7 The details of the patterns depend on the magnitude of the advantage accruing to defectors ( the value of b ) , but a wide range of values leads to chaotic patterns , whose nature is almost always independent of the initial proportions of C and D. We believe that deterministically generated spatial structure within populations may often be crucial for the evolution of cooperation , whether it be among molecules , cells or organisms .
8 Indebted countries ' options depend on the magnitude of the debt , who lent the money in the first place , and on what terms .
9 Both of these depend on the capacity of organisms to integrate previously separated functions through the imposition of a superordinate system relating its subordinate parts ; and this requires the open transfer of information between those parts .
10 But the real reason is almost certainly the devastating impact which selling the pots-and-pans business could have on Corning and other small towns that depend on the company for their prosperity .
11 Those actually selected depend on the type of price .
12 Endothelial cells express many proteoglycans , whose structure and density depend on the type of endothelium and its activation status .
13 A framework for interpreting memory results for complex stimuli was discussed in the introduction , this was the idea that memory results depend on the type of schema subjects previously held for a situation .
14 The relative proportions of , and ; addition in polybutadienes can be ascertained by making use of the differences in absorption between ( CH ) out of plane bending vibrations , which depend on the type of substitution at the olefinic bond .
15 The consequences of starvation depend on the type of dietary deficiency from which it arises .
16 Monetary values depend on the size of the organisation but for a company the size of Lucas Automotive the potential savings from each review have generally run into hundreds of thousands of pounds .
17 These rules are fairly complex and depend on the size of the estate .
18 It is assumed that these are linked not to profit maximisation , but depend on the size of the enterprise .
19 Business decisions whether to buy equipment or to build a new factory depend on the relationship between the rate of interest and the expected rate of return on the project .
20 The irregular appearance of this material does not necessarily mean that it is amorphous , as lattice images depend on the direction of the electron beam .
21 Expected heights and weights depend on the sex of the child , birth-weight , and the height and weight of their parents .
22 To that extent they ought to have wide circulation , except that they depend on the kind of painstaking preparation that Knussen had given them — the music sounded taught and nurtured rather than merely rehearsed .
23 Central sensitisation and wind up depend on the activity of N -methyl-D-aspartic acid ( NMDA ) receptors in the dorsal horn .
24 The sensory nerve cells that are affected by capsaicin depend on the presence of NGF to develop properly , and to maintain high enough levels of peptide to carry out their functions .
25 Combinations of options allow investors to create a huge variety of contingent contracts : paper assets whose returns depend on the change in price of the underlying asset in very particular ways .
26 Our feelings about this depend on the concept of equity .
27 Both E and G depend on the shape of the specimen and it is usually necessary to define the shape carefully for any measurement .
28 Robin Latimer , community care officer at SCODA , rejects any notion that drugs charities are scare-mongering : ‘ It is worrying because residential services depend on the flow of clients . ’
29 Successive applications of the method using different combinations of the Killing vectors yield metrics which depend on the order of the vectors used .
30 It is even harder to assess the social impact , and although Bollom ( 1978 ) has argued that local attitudes to second-home owners depend on the structure of the local community , and that antipathy to second-home owners ironically tends to decline with increasing percentages of second homes , another study ( Downing and Dower , 1972 , 32 ) has argued that :
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